Mikala aulani, defense attorney, sitting first chair in the case of State of Georgia v.Ssophie Lee, couldn't believe what she had just heard. She felt like she was carved in stone and in a time warp all rolled into one. She wanted to say something, but her tongue wouldn't work. She saw the foreman of the jury holding the paper he had just read from. She had seen the tremor in his hand and known immediately what he was going to say. And that was not going to be good for her client. She had seen his blank expression. Now she heard the words ricocheting around inside her head, over and over and over.